CVE-2018-6198
4.7
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.08%
Description
w3m through 0.5.3 does not properly handle temporary files when the ~/.w3m directory is unwritable, which allows a local attacker to craft a symlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files.
How to fix CVE-2018-6198
To remediate CVE-2018-6198, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/w3m—upgrade to 0.5.3_git20241203-r0 or later
- Debian/w3m—upgrade to 0.5.3-36 or later
Is CVE-2018-6198 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.5.3_git20241203-r0
- from 0, < 0.5.3-36
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |